Console UI focus seems to be a problem in many areas. There’s always been the issue of if buttons aren’t aligned with other buttons, they can’t be accessed. Which can lock the player in the UI if the close button specifically doesn’t align.
I’m running into a problem specifically right now when using two Verse based UI. They each operate fine on their own. But I integrated my Shop UI into my Smartphone UI for ease of access. On PC this integration works perfectly. But on Console, opening the Shop UI from the Smartphone UI locks focus and the player cannot interact or close the interface. There is an annoying workaround that if the player presses their Start button once to open Fortnite default menu and press again to close it, Focus will return. But I imagine these two issues are linked. Console based UI handling is just not good and needs a look at in a future quality of life update.
EDIT - My only idea would be Epic implemented a cursor based focused for console players. All the latest consoles have thumbsticks at this point. If focus was no longer locked to the buttons and players could move their thumbsticks and had to manually aim at a button, I think it would solve all these issues. See mock up. The circle would move around freely using thumbsticks.
